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Down here in steel country, the Pittsburgh Penguins are mightily exercised about some yapping up in Ottawa. None of them are too impressed with Senators head coach and GM Bryan Murray's charge that the Penguins tanked their season-ending game against the Philadelphia Flyers because they would rather play the Senators in the playoffs.
Penguins head coach Michel Therrien said Murray's remarks were “so ridiculous I don't even want to comment.”
But what really got the Penguins dressing room in an uproar after Tuesday's practice was an incredibly stupid demand from a columnist in the Ottawa Sun that one of the Senators should make like Bobby Clarke on Valery Kharmalov in 1972 and take a two-handed slash at Sidney Crosby's tender ankle.
We'll have more on that in Tuesday's column, but suffice to say it did stir up the Penguins, who should fare far better against the Sens this year than they did in the first round a year ago.
Here's how things should go in the first round:
EAST
Montreal over Boston in five.
Pittsburgh over Ottawa in six.
Washington over Philadelphia in six.
New Jersey over New York Rangers in six.
WEST
Detroit over Nashville in five.
San Jose over Calgary in six.
Minnesota over Colorado in seven.
Anaheim over Dallas in six.
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